¹欺贫重富必受惩罚

¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who [are] in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.`

²主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓：“看哪！对付你们的日子快到，人必用钩子把你们钩走，最后一个也必被人用鱼钩钩去。

²Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness, That lo, days are coming upon you, And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks.

³你们一个一个经过城墙的破口出去，被丢弃在哈门。”这是耶和华的宣告。

³And [by] breaches ye go forth, A woman [at that] over-against her, And ye have cast down the high place, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴向偶像献祭的罪“你们去伯特利犯罪，在吉甲增加过犯吧！每早献上你们的祭物，每三日献上你们的十分之一吧！

⁴Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices, Every third year your tithes.

⁵以色列人哪！把有酵的饼作感谢祭献上，高声宣扬你们自愿献的祭吧！这原是你们喜爱行的。”这是主耶和华的宣告。

⁵And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁶受重罚仍不悔改“虽然我使你们各城的人牙齿干净，各处都缺乏粮食；但你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁶And I also — I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places, And ye have not turned back unto Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁷“我曾在收割前三个月，不降雨给你们；我降雨给一个城，在另一个城却不降雨；我在一块地降雨，另一块地没有雨水就枯干了。

⁷And I also — I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

⁸两三个城的居民挤到一个城去找水喝，却没有足够的水喝；但你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁸And wandered have two or three cities, Unto the same city to drink water, And they are not satisfied, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁹“我曾多次用热风和霉烂击打你们的园子和葡萄园，叫蝗虫吃光你们的无花果树和橄榄树；但你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁹I have smitten you with blasting and with mildew, The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, And of your figs, and of your olives, Eat doth the palmer-worm, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁰“我在你们中间降下瘟疫，正如临到埃及的瘟疫一样；我用刀杀掉你们的年轻人，你们被掳去的马匹也遭杀戮；我使你们营里死尸的臭气扑鼻，但你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

¹⁰I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up — even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹¹“我倾覆你们，就像倾覆所多玛和蛾摩拉一样；你们像一根木柴，从火里抽出来；但你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

¹¹I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹²“因此，以色列啊！我必这样对付你。以色列啊！因我必这样对付你，你应当预备迎见你的　神。”

¹²Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

¹³看哪！他造了山，创造了风，把他的心意告诉人；他造了晨光和黑暗，他的脚踏在地的高处，耶和华万军的　神就是他的名。

¹³For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer to man what [is] His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on high places of earth, Jehovah, God of Hosts, [is] His name!